Fortunately, Jed Mercurio, the writer of the acclaimed Line of Duty, is determined to wrest the concept away from leather-lunged warblers in diamante-studded spandex, and back into these confusing times.

Bodyguard (BBC1, Sundays, 9pm) didn’t so much explode onto our screens this week as stick your attention in a vice and slowly tighten it over the two hours of an opening double bill.

Mercurio’s MO – with Line of Duty and his earlier medical dramas Cardiac Arrest and Bodies – has always been sweaty tension in small rooms, people

facing each other over

desks, or operating tables, sparring over the rules, regulations and petty bureaucracies of our public services.

Something else which has a vice-like grip is alcohol, according to presenter Adrian Chiles in the absorbing doc Drinkers Like Me (BBC2, Monday, 9pm), about the effects of our booze culture.

The weather’s turned, and now Bake-Off is back (Channel 4, Tuesdays, 8pm) – all the reason you need to turn up the heating, throw on a onesie, break out the hot chocolate and settle in to wait for Christmas.